190 | CYPERACEAE 
4. S. setacea Poir. Plant often spreading, up to 7 dm. long, the stems erect, 
spreading, or diffuse, 8 dm. long or less, usually tufted: clusters of spikelets 
terminal and axillary, the arn ones stalked, nodding or sometimes nearly 
erect: scales mostly 3-5 mm. long: achene 2.5-3 mm. long, the body Boho 
or spheroidal, rugose or iud. pubeseent, the Ogeogmim, 3-lobed, ap- 
pressed to the achene-body. [S. hemitaphra Steud. S. Tor a Wa alp. S. 
de poda C. Wright. eo pinelands and sandy swamps, Coa d Plain and 
adj. provinces, Fla. to Tex., Mo., and Conn.; also Great Lake Lowland, Ind.— 
(W.I 
5. S. Curtissii Britton. Plant weak, often reclining, 1.5-4.5 dm. long, the 
dis relatively slender, glabrous or nearly so: leaf-blades 1-2 mm. wide, 
ooth: clusters of spikelets scant, the axillary ones, when present, slender- 
stalled scales 83-5 mm. long, pu ubese ent on the I achene about 2 mm. long, 
e body globose or lightly depressed, Pu late, glabrous, the hypogynium 
Rede 3 pairs of tubereles.—Pinelands, near 3 acksonville, Fla. 
6. S. Elliottii Chapm. Plant 2-7 dm. tall, the stems stoutish, regs d pangs) 
pubescent: leaf-blades broad, mostly 4-6 mm. wide, usually flat: of 
Pos large, a and commonly 1 or 2 stout-stalked ix ous Dus 
cales m. long, usually pale, finely pubes ll over hen t 
2 m. long, Es body subglobose or slightly elongate, wrinkled o o 
papillose, some of the basal papillae elongate and deflexed, the hypogyniu 
with 3 strongly 2-lobed tubere A D hammocks, and e hillsides, 
Coastal Plain and adj. provinces, Fla. to Tex., Mo., and Va.—(W 
7. S. ciliata es Plant up to 1 m. tall, the stems slender, stout, sesh 
or pubescent the angles: leaf-blades narrow, 1—2.5 mm. wide, bee ing 
revolute: PM of spikelets small, gen al, and sometimes also sillar 
slender-stalked ones present: scales 4-6 m "ong, usually e ud pum 
E abrous or pubescent on the keel: achene uos on long, the body s sub- 
globose or ovoid, fin ur and usually amici ET some of the Pe Pes 
elongate and deflexed, the hypogyn 3 entire or merely notched 
tubercles.— Woods, pinelands sandhills, ‘ond. Se Coastal "Plain id adi. 
provinces, Fla. to Tex., Mo. and V 
8. S. Brittonii Core. Plant up to 9 dm. tall, d stems Ep relatively 
slender, often reclining, glabrous: leaf-blades 2— '3 mm. wide ess, glabrous: 
clusters of spikelets small, terminal, is pp Bis axillar ry and short- or 
slender-stalked: scales mostly 4-5 mm. long, glabrous, often light or dark 
chestnut-colored : Me ae ut 2.5 m x nee the body globose « D ovoid- oo 
[fe RN Or papillose-wrinkled, the hypogynium with 3 tubercles. [S. g 
(Chapm.) Britton, not Boekl.]—-Pinelands, sandhills, and hee d 
Plain, "Fla. to Miss. and N. C. 
S. pauciflora panies Plant 1-6 dm. tall, the stems slender, pubescent: leaf- 
blade less than m. wide, or rarely more, pubescent: clusters of spikelets 
few together, bd and ‘often also 1 or 2 short-stalked or long-stalked 
axillary ones present: scales 2.5-5 mm. long, glabrous, or pubescent about the 
keel: achene 1.5-2 mm. long, the body globose or ovoid- oo ic rario some 
the h 
of the lower papillae elongate and reflexed, ypogyn 3 pairs of 
small tubercles. AM rA pinelands, meadows, and En various fiim 
Fla. to Tex. , Ohio, and N. H.—(W. I). 
10. S. deg El. Plant 1—4 dm. tall, the stems slender, sometimes filiform, 
smooth: leaf-blades Bee thus fili form, smooth: spikelets in a single ter- 
minal ui. seales glabrous, the larger ones 4-5 mm. _ long: achene 2-3 mm. 
long, the body ovoid or globose- -ovoid, ribbed lengthwise, obtuse or minutely 
pointed, with a pair of pits on each side of the pias base, the hypogynium 
